Mitt Romney’s not only laying out plans for his own time in the White House. He’s got a role sketched out for his wife, Ann, as first lady, too.

“My wife is gorgeous, and she is the brains in the outfit. … I agree with you she’d make a wonderful first lady,” Romney said in response to a question at a town hall in Florida on Tuesday afternoon. “If she were the first lady, she’d spend a lot of her time helping kids understand that before they have kids, they ought to get married.”

The comments are not only another expression of the confidence Romney’s been trying to display in his presidential campaign but a pitch to social conservatives ahead of this weekend’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, which he’ll address on Saturday morning.

But amid his latest airing of now familiar grievances with Barack Obama’s presidency, Romney also focused some of his attacks on rival Rick Perry, telling the crowd of senior citizens that they should be wary of the Texas governor’s position on Social Security.

Romney pledged to support and protect Social Security and returned to Perry’s description of the system as a “Ponzi scheme” in his 2010 book, “Fed Up!”

“I happen to think that to fix Social Security, you have to believe in Social Security. And I do,” Romney said. “The problem is not that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. The problem is keeping it from becoming a Perry scheme.”

The former Massachusetts governor was also critical of the number of debates in the Republican race.

“These debates are unusual,” Romney said. “We candidates have almost nothing to say about who puts on debates and how many there will be. There’s too many, already. It’s kind of a strange thing. You’re going to be calling your stations and tell them to please return to regularly scheduled programming.”

But Romney admitted it’s not likely that anyone who hopes for fewer televised debates will get their wish. The next debates are scheduled for Oct. 11, Oct. 18 and Nov. 9.

“My guess is there will be a lot more and [we will] go over the same questions again and again,” Romney said, “or maybe find some new questions that are picayune and might stump somebody.”